Finally, someone has created a real life version of the Short Circuit’s – Automatic Drums animations from the 90’s. OMG yes.
Wintergatan is a Nordic band that has been building this marble song making machine for a couple of years using hand cut wooden cogs. The whole Marble Machine was built and composed by Martin Molin, on their youtube channel they have 10 videos of the building process.
This promo is filled with some fantastic moments from last years festival, including more workshops, games and shows than you can shake a stick at! Madskillz Vancouver is Back in Action! This festival will run from June 22-24th, 2012 at the Circus West auditorium of the PNE (it’s an amazing circus space). Be there
Featured performers this year include:
And Many More…
Can’t wait to see you and your skillz!
What a great dose of comedy and skills. Produced by two brothers, Johnnathan and Joshua Gerard, Indian Dubstep takes tutting and waving to a whole new level. This is what happens when two clowns become excellent dancers.
Johnnathen is also the composer of the music.
Rob (Tito) Cartwright is an amazing slack liner who street performs near traffic lights. Born in Australia, he has been performing in Chile for many years as a clown. His art is beautiful and skillful, it’s no surprise they made a documentary about him!
Wow! What a great routine. It’s simple, yet effective. He seems to have mastered cute, funny and technical all in one show, the head sequence from 2:38 shows wonderful control.
Theatro Hugo & Ines website has more videos, include a video of him performing mime in 1982 – 30 years of performing!
Yuki and Mike Sharkey * have made an amazing tutorial video about a Paper Helicopter. The video production on this video is great, the slow pans, the from the finger shot and the free feeling about it. The end is uber cute. Big Ups to this video for upping tutorial quality!
They’re looking for votes for the 3rd annual IJA video tutorial contest, to vote for them, follow the link in the youtube video description.
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The British contact jugglers are humble folk, and don’t show off through video. Yet, Drew did a call out on his S**t Spinners Say post about how there needs to be a S**t Contact Jugglers say video. So, I hunted those punks down at Bristol’s Other Bristol convention, and grabbed any footage I could. This is the proof that most of the people on MOM are in fact, not robots.
Dawn
Arthur Cadre break dances in a myriad of new style moves that display strength and flexibility that is beyond human.